It seems that I finally solved the problem with my blurry fonts that is caused by the NVidia proprietary driver.
In Ubuntu, the NVidia display driver settings are under System -> Administration -> NVidia X Server Settings. If you open this program and proceed, then you will end up with nothing. There is a reason for that: the X Server configuration file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf and as a regular user, you can't write to this directory.
To overcome this, open up a terminal and switch to root and issue nvidia-settings command (if you have not created a root accound, you can do the same with sudo nvidia-settings). In the X Server Configuration program, select X Server Display Configuration on the left pane. On the right pane you will see your monitor. At the bottom pane, switch to X Screen tab and in the Meta Mode dialog, select the resolution that you want to have. I have a 22" screen running at 1680x1050 and I have selected this mode. It looks like 1680x1050 +0+0 but yours will possibly be different unless you are using the same display size with the same refresh rate and native resolution. When done, switch to Display tab and click on the "Save to X Configuration File" when the dialog box pops up, remove the tick on "Merge with existing file" (the screenshot on the right). Click save and then quit the program. Log out and log back in. Everything should look normal.
This problem plagued my computer for quite some time. Please let me know if this fixes your problem (I really hope so). If you have any other way to overcome this problem or otherwise a trick, please let us know here.
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